Capoeira for Community
Capoeira For Special Educational Needs
capoeira for Special Educational Needs
Amazonas Arts offers a unique and very special activity to enhance the well-being and health of participants.
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Amazonas Arts is a Brighton-based unincorporated community association that applies Capoeira which is a Brazilian art form that fuses movement, games and percussion music to promote activities to improve mental health, increase self-confidence, and aid communication.
Capoeira Angola fundamentally helps to create a sense of community to empower participants within an inclusive environment.
Amazonas Arts and Amaze Sussex in partnership delivered in Brighton a sensational project for special educational needs in 2021.
In this Funding Recovery resilience project through 12 weeks, Capoeira Angola was the foundational activity, which created such an amazing opportunity for young people to evolve their capacities to learn Brazilian-Portuguese words through Capoeira Angola, Capoeira physical movement and be able to lead a group through percussion music in Capoeira Angola..
Well-Done Everyone! We will continue to strive
Whilst we have experience working with both children and adults with various special needs, our focus is particularly on teenagers and adults with autism and downs syndrome. We have received consistently positive feedback from the organisations we have worked with.
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Past clients include:
Team Domenica, Brighton
3 days workshop with autistic young adult 14 - 30 Years Old
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Laidlaw Education, London
Half-day workshop with autistic children 8-16 years old.
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Take Part Festival, Hove
Taster session at the festival's Out There event.
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Care Management Group, Surrey
A performance for adult service-users and their families.
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Brazil Arte Academy, Essex
Facilitating a workshop for special needs adults.
Amaze Future Project, Preston Park Brighton
delivering a voluntary capoeira workshop for young people with special educational needs.
TESTIMONIALS
"It was a revelation to see some of our shyest and least confident students feel so empowered. An experience described by one of our children as ‘brilliant….one of the best things I’ve ever done’.We highly recommend them!"
LAIDLAW EDUCATION / LONDON
We are flexible, open to collaboration and really keen to expand our work to reach people with disabilities. We would be happy to come along and run a free interactive taster session to show you what we do. If you are interested or want to find out more, please do get in touch.